Punjab Technical University Jalandhar Syllabus Scheme

(1st & 2nd Semester) For

Diploma in Computer Applications (DCA)

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STUDY SCHEME FOR DCA CODE BSIT(05)-101 SUBJECT Fundamentals of Information Tech. L P T INTERNALEXTERNALTOTAL 25 25 25 25 50 25 25 155 85 240 200 75 75 75 75 0 75 75 450 100 100 100 100 50 100 100 650

30 30 60 30 30 60 40 0 40 25 25 50 30 0 30

BSIT(05)-102 Programming in C BSIT(05)-103 Operating Systems BSIT(05)-104 RDBMS-I BSIT(05)-105 Communication & Soft Skills BSIT(05)-105 Software Lab-I ( C ) BSIT(05)-106 Software Lab-II (RDBMS-1) TOTAL SEMESTER 2 CODE SUBJECT

T INTERNALEXTERNALTOTAL 25 25 25 25 25 25 75 75 75 75 75 75 450 100 100 100 100 100 100 600

BSIT(05)-201 Digital Electronics Fundamentals 40 0 40 BSIT(05)-202 Data Structures through C BSIT(05)-203 Web Technology-I BSIT(05)-204 Desktop Publishing Tools Software Lab-III (Data Structures) BSIT(05)-206 Software Lab-IV (DTP,WEB) BSIT(05)-205 TOTAL 115125240 35 35 70 30 40 70 10 50 60

150

Guidelines for Internal Assessment : The internal marks will be based on a continuous assessment and the following is to be adhered to : Test/Quizs (15 Marks). Best 2 out of 3. Presentation/Reports/Home assignments (5 Marks) Class attendance/General behaviour (5 marks) Guidelines for External Practical / Viva-Voce : The external practical /viva-voce will be conducted as per the details mentioned above in study scheme by an external examiner appointed by the University.

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BSIT(05)-101 FUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER-SETTER The question paper will consist of Two parts, A and B. Part A will have 15 short answer questions (40-60 words) of 2 marks each. Part B will have 12 long answer questions of 5 marks each. The syllabus of the subject is divided into 3 sections I, II and III. The question paper will cover the entire syllabus uniformly. Part A will carry 5 questions from each section and Part B will carry 4 questions from each section. INSTRUCTION FOR CANDIDATES Candidates are required to attempt all questions from Part A and 9 questions of Part B out of 12. _____________________________________________________________________ Section I UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS: computer definition, characteristics of computers, evolution of computers, basic anatomy of computers, DATA REPRESENTATION: Number Systems, conversions from one number system to another, Character representation, Error detecting codes CPU: Control Unit, ALU, Instruction set, instruction representation, registers, CISC vs. RISC. MEMORY ORGANIZATION: Storage evaluation criteria, Main Memory, Secondary devices, mass storage devices. INPUT DEVICES: Keyboard devices, point and draw devices, scanning devices, voice recognition devices, vision input devices. OUTPUT DEVICES: Display devices, Printers, Plotters, voice response system Section II SOFTWARES: understanding relationship between hardware and software, type of software, languages. WINDOWS: Introduction to windows, overview of different of windows, Basic element of windows, customizing windows, working with windows, exploring control panel, managing files and folders, windows accessories. PRESENTATION PACKAGE: introduction to PowerPoint, PowerPoint window, Toolbars, their icons and commands, opening and creating a presentation, creating, deleting and copying slides, saving a presentation, different views of PowerPoint, designing presentation, inserting clipart, moving text, entering graphs, organization charts, customizing presentations, adding

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predefined shapes, creating slide shows, creating custom animations, rehearsing slide timings.

Section III WORD PROCESSING : Word basics, starting word, different views of word document, word window, mouse and keyboard operation, menus, commands, toolbars and their icons, creating a new document, saving and opening a document, formatting font and paragraphs, formatting pages, printing documents, spelling checks, auto text and track changes, working with tables, inserting images, mail merge, macros, templates, wizards. SPREAD SHEET PACKAGE: Excel basics, starting excel, menus, commands, toolbars and their icons, working with cells, creating a new workbook, saving and opening a workbook, working with workbook, formatting cells, inserting rows and columns, printing, borders, Data sort, Data filters, functions, crating charts and graphs, pivot table reports, Data tables and scenarios, hyperlinks.

BSIT(05) 102 PROGRAMMING WITH C INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER-SETTER The question paper will consist of Two parts, A and B. Part A will have 15 short answer questions (40-60 words) of 2 marks each. Part B will have 12 long answer questions of 5 marks each. The syllabus of the subject is divided into 3 sections I, II and III. The question paper will cover the entire syllabus uniformly. Part A will carry 5 questions from each section and Part B will carry 4 questions from each section. INSTRUCTION FOR CANDIDATES Candidates are required to attempt all questions from Part A and 9 questions of Part B out of 12. _____________________________________________________________________ Section I Basics of programming languages and C Introduction to Programming: Computer programming, Programming techniques, Procedural programming, Algorithms and Flowcharts Fundamentals of C Languages: Characters used in C, Identifiers, Keywords or reserved word, Tokens, Constants, variables, Variable declarations, Basic and additional data types, operations and expressions, Arithmetic, Relational, Logical, incremental and decremental operators, conditional operator, bitwise operators, Additional operators, Mixed mode operation and automatic (implicit) conversions, Cast or explicit conversion, operator precedence and associativity, structure of C program. Input/Output Functions and statements: Formatted input/output functions, scanf(), printf(), Escape sequences, Assignment statement, multiple assignment statement, writing user friendly programs, running a

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program using Turbo C, Commonly used turbo editing commands/key controls, more about formatted output functions, character input/output functions, getchar() function, putchar() function, getch() function, putch() function, getche() function, gets() function, puts() function, clrscr() function. Section II Control Statement and arrays in C Control statements in C: If-else statement, nested if-else statement, switch statement. Loop controls structures in C: loop control statements, for statement or for loop, nested for statement or nested for loop, while statement or while loop, do-while statement or do-while loop, comparison of loop control structures, goto statement, break statement, continue statement, exit() function. Arrays and subscripted values: one dimensional array, two dimensional array, Array declaration, accessing values in an array, initializing values in an array. String Manipulation in C: String handling functions in C, strlen() function, strcpy() function, strcat() function, strcmp() function, reading/writing strings, atoi() function, additional string handling functions, operations with characters

Section III Functions, Structures and pointers in C Functions in C: uses of functions, user defined functions, function declarations, calling a function, actual and formal arguments, Rules to call a function, function prototype, recursion, Local or internal variables, Global or external variables, void function, storage classes in C, auto or automatic storage class, static storage class, extern storage class, register storage class. Structures and unions: structures, structure variables and arrays, initialization of structure variables and arrays, dot(.) operator, assigning values of a structure to another structure, structure as a function argument, structure within structure, sizeof() of a structure, unions, sizeof() of a union, difference between a structure and a union, enum data type, Bit field, typedef declaration. Pointers: pointer declaration, address operator &, indirection operation *, expressions using pointers, pointers as function arguments, call by value, call by reference, comparison between call by value and call by reference, pointer arithmetic, pointers with arrays, reading/writing values in a n array using pointer, dynamic memory allocation, malloc() function, calloc() function, realloc() function, free() function, dynamic memory allocation for an array, one dimensional array and pointer, multi dimensional array and pointer, pointers with strings, pointers with structures, pointers to functions, advantages of pointers.

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BSIT(05) 103 OPERATING SYSTEM _______________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER-SETTER The question paper will consist of Two parts, A and B. Part A will have 15 short answer questions (40-60 words) of 2 marks each. Part B will have 12 long answer questions of 5 marks each. The syllabus of the subject is divided into 3 sections I, II and III. The question paper will cover the entire syllabus uniformly. Part A will carry 5 questions from each section and Part B will carry 4 questions from each section.

INSTRUCTION FOR CANDIDATES Candidates are required to attempt all questions from Part A and 9 questions of Part B out of 12. _______________________________________________________________ Section I INTRODUCTION :Overview of Operating System, Computer Hardware& OS Interaction, Components, Functions, Classification, Architecture and Design of OS, Monolithic and Layered Architecture, Virtual Machine and Exokernel architecture, Client Server Architecture, Interface design and Implementation, Performance Measurement and Monitoring. OVERVIEW OF PROCESSES AND THREADS :Process States, Process State Transitions, PCB(Process Control Block), OS Services for process control, Cooperating processes and interprocess communication, Direct & Indirect Communication, CPU Scheduling, Types of Schedulers, Scheduling(FCFS, SJF, Priority, Round Robin, Multilevel, Multilevel Feedback Queue), Threads (Concept and Overview), User and Kernel Threads. SECTION II PROCESS SYNCHRONIZATION :Overview , Concept of Race Conditions, Critical Section Problem, Mutual Exclusion Principle , Synchronization Tools, Mutex, Semaphores, Monitors, Synchronization Problems, Bounded Buffer Problem, Readers and Writers Problem, Dining Philosopher Problem, Sleeping Barber Problem. DEADLOCK: Deadlock Concepts, Conditions, Resource Allocation Graph, Deadlock Management, Prevention, Avoidance, Detection and Recovery. OVERVIEW OF MEMORY MANAGEMENT :Basic concept of Memory, Address Binding, Logical and Physical Address Space, Memory Partitioning and Allocation, Protection, Fragmentation and Compaction, Swapping , Using Bitmaps and Linked Lists, Paging, Mapping of Pages to frames, Hierarchical Page Tables, Segmentation, Accessing addresses in Segmentation, Segmentation with Paging.

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SECTION III VIRTUAL MEMORY :Basic Concept of Virtual Memory, Demand Paging, Thrashing, Transaction Lookaside Buffers, Inverted Page Tables, Algorithms ( Page Replacement, FIFO , Optimal Page Replacement , LRU, Clock, Counting based ) OVERVIEW OF I/O SUBSYSTEM: Basics of Input/Output System, I/O Hardware, Polling, Interrupts, DMA (Direct Memory Access), I/I System Function, Application I/O Interface, Kernel I/O Subsystem. FILE SYSTEM :Introduction to File Systems, File Attributes and Naming, Data and Record Structure, File Organization, File Operations, Directory Structures, Single-Level structure, Two-Level Structure, Hierarchical Structure, Various File Systems , CD ROM, FAT 16, FAT 32, UNIX. BSIT(05)-104 RDBMS-I ________________________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER-SETTER The question paper will consist of Two parts, A and B. Part A will have 15 short answer questions (40-60 words) of 2 marks each. Part B will have 12 long answer questions of 5 marks each. The syllabus of the subject is divided into 3 sections I, II and III. The question paper will cover the entire syllabus uniformly. Part A will carry 5 questions from each section and Part B will carry 4 questions from each section. INSTRUCTION FOR CANDIDATES Candidates are required to attempt all questions from Part A and 9 questions of Part B out of 12. ________________________________________________________________________ Section I Introduction to Databases, DBMS and RDBMS : Introduction, Information, Quality of Information, Information Processing, What is a Database?, Why a Database?, Characteristics of Data in a Database, What is a Database Management System (DBMS)?, Need for DBMS, Types of DBMS, Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), RDBMS Terminology, Relational Data Structure, Relational Data Integrity, Conclusion, Review Questions. Section II Access 2000 Basics : Introduction, Starting Access 2000, Access Startup Dialog Box, Menus and Toolbars, Using Toolbar Buttons, Arranging Buttons on the Toolbar, Viewing Data, Creating an Access 2000 Database and Tables, Database Properties, Modifying Tables, Creating Forms, Entering and Updating Data Using Forms, Navigating between Records in a Form, Finding, Editing and Deleting Data in a Form, Using Access 2000 Help, Using Answer Wizard, Using the Contents Tab to Get Help, Using the Index Tab to get Help, Exercises.

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Report and Queries: Introduction, Sorting and Filtering Records, Creating and Printing Reports, Creating and Using Queries. Section III Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL): Introduction, Characteristics of SQL, Advantages of SQL, Types of SQL Tables, Create Table, NULLS, Data Manipulation, Update Operations, SQL in Access. Query by Example (QBE): Introduction, SELECT Queries in QBE, Make-Table Query, DELETE Query, UPDATE Query, APPEND Query, Conclusion, Exercises.

BSIT(05)-106 COMMUNICATION & SOFT SKILLS

Essentials of Grammar: Parts of Speech, Punctuation, Vocabulary Building, Phonetics Office Management : Types of Correspondence, Receipt and Dispatch of Mail, Filing Systems, Classification of Mail. ,Role & Function of Correspondence, MIS, Managing Computer Letter & Resume Writing: Types of Letters-Formal / Informal, Importance and Function, Drafting the Applications, Elements of Structure, Preparing the Resume, Dos & Donts of Resume, Helpful Hints Presentation Skills: Importance of Presentation Skills, Capturing Data, Voice & Picture Integration, Guidelines to make Presentation Interesting, Body Language, Voice Modulation, Audience Awareness, Presentation Plan, Visual Aids, Forms of Layout, Styles of Presentation. Interview Preparation: Types of Interview, Preparing for the Interviews, Attending the Interview, Interview Process, Employers Expectations, General Etiquette, Dressing Sense, Postures & Gestures Group Discussion & Presentation: Definition, Process, Guidelines, Helpful Expressions, Evaluation

(Note: Every student shall be given 15 minutes. of presentation time & 45 minutes of discussion on his/ her presentation.) The student will be evaluated on the basis of : his / her presentation style Feedback of Faculty & Students General Etiquette Proficiency in Letter Drafting / Interview Preparation The paper is internal and at least 3 tests will be taken. Best 2 of 3 shall account for final grades (70% Test & 30% Presentation)

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BSIT(05)-201

DIGITAL ELECTRONICS

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER-SETTER The question paper will consist of Two parts, A and B. Part A will have 15 short answer questions (40-60 words) of 2 marks each. Part B will have 12 long answer questions of 5 marks each. The syllabus of the subject is divided into 3 sections I, II and III. The question paper will cover the entire syllabus uniformly. Part A will carry 5 questions from each section and Part B will carry 4 questions from each section. INSTRUCTION FOR CANDIDATES Candidates are required to attempt all questions from Part A and 9 questions of Part B out of 12. ________________________________________________________________________ Section -I Number System And Codes: Introduction, Number System (Binary Numbers, decimal-binary conversion, Octal Numbers, Octal-Binary Conversions, Hexadecimal Numbers, Hexadecimal-Binary conversions, Hexadecimal-octal conversions), Floating Point Representations of Numbers, Arithmetic Operations (Binary Arithmetic), 1s and 2s Compliment (1s Compliment Subtraction, 2s Compliment Subtraction , Signed Binary number Representations, Addition in the 2s compliment System, Subtraction in the 2s compliment system,

Boolean Algebra: Basic Laws of Boolean algebra (Boolean addition, Boolean Multiplication, Properties of Boolean Algebra, Demorgan theorems, Sum of Products and Product of Sums, (Minterm , Maxterm, Deriving Sum of Products(SOP) Expression from Truth Table, Deriving Product of Sum(POS) Expression from Truth Table, Karnaugh Map (Two variable, Three variable). Section II Logic gates: Logic gates (OR Gate, AND Gate, NOT Gate, NAND Gate, NOR Gate, Ex- OR Gate, Ex-NOR Gate). Arithmetic Circuits: Half Adder, Full Adder, Half-Subtractor, Full Subtractor, Combinational Circuits: Multiplixers, Basic four input multiplexer, Demultiplexers, 1 to 4 demultiplexer, Decoders, Basic Binary decoder, 3 to 8 decoder, Encoders : Decimal to Binary Encoder. Section -III Flip Flops: Introduction, Flip Flops, Types of Flip-Flops, S-R Flip-Flop (NOR Based, NAND Based), Clocked S-R Flip-Flop, D Flip-Flop, J-K Flip-Flop

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Memories: Introduction, Classification of memories, Registers, Main Memories and Secondary Memory, Sequential Access Memory And Random Access Memory, Static and Dynamic Memory, Volatile and Non Volatile Memory, Magnetic and Semiconductor Memory, Basic Memory Structure.

BSIT(05)-202

DATA STRUCTURES

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER-SETTER The question paper will consist of Two parts, A and B. Part A will have 15 short answer questions (40-60 words) of 2 marks each. Part B will have 12 long answer questions of 5 marks each. The syllabus of the subject is divided into 3 sections I, II and III. The question paper will cover the entire syllabus uniformly. Part A will carry 5 questions from each section and Part B will carry 4 questions from each section. INSTRUCTION FOR CANDIDATES Candidates are required to attempt all questions from Part A and 9 questions of Part B out of 12. ________________________________________________________________________ Section -I Arrays, Pointers & Structures: What is Array, Declaration of Array, Processing with Array, Initialization of Array, Use of Array in Function, Multidimensional Array, What is Pointer, Declaration of pointer, Pointers and functions, (call by value, call by reference) Array of Pointers, Dynamic memory allocation, What is structure, Array of Structures Linked List: Introduction, Traversing a linked list, Searching a linked list, Insertion in a linked list, Deletion from a linked list, Reverse linked list, Circular linked list-creation of circular linked list, traversing circular linked list, insertion in circular linked list, deletion in circular linked list. Double linked list- creation of doubly linked list Section II Stacks and Queues: Introduction to Stacks, Array implementation of Stack (push operation on Stack, pop operation on Stack), Linked Implementation (Push operations on Stack, Pop operations on Stack), Applications of Stack-Reversal of String, Checking validity of an expression containing nested parenthesis. Queues Array implementation of Queue (Add operations in Queue, Delete operation in Queue) Linked List Implementation (Add operations in queue, delete operation in queue) Circular Queue (Add operation in circular queue, Delete operation in Queue) Priority Queue-linked implementation of priority queue, Operations in priority queue (Add operations in priority queue, Delete operation in priority queue, Dequeue- Array implementation of Dequeue, Add and Delete operations in dequeue

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Section -III Trees: Introduction, Binary tree, Strictly Binary tree, Complete Binary tree, Extended binary tree, Algebraic expression representation in tree, Representation of Binary tree- Linked representation, Traversing in Binary tree (Preorder, Inorder, Postorder), Binary Search Tree (Search And Insertion Operations, Deletion Operations), Traversing in Binary Search trees(Preorder, Postorder, Inorder) Recursive Functions for finding a node in Binary search tree Sorting: What is Sorting, Efficiency parameters, efficiency of sorting, Bubble Sort- Analysis, Selection sort-Analysis, Insertion sort- Analysis, Quick Sort-Analysis. Searching: What is searching, Linear search, Binary search, Comparison of Linear and Binary search.

BSIT(05)-203

WEB TECHNOLOGIES

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER-SETTER The question paper will consist of Two parts, A and B. Part A will have 15 short answer questions (40-60 words) of 2 marks each. Part B will have 12 long answer questions of 5 marks each. The syllabus of the subject is divided into 3 sections I, II and III. The question paper will cover the entire syllabus uniformly. Part A will carry 5 questions from each section and Part B will carry 4 questions from each section. INSTRUCTION FOR CANDIDATES Candidates are required to attempt all questions from Part A and 9 questions of Part B out of 12.

Section I INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNET: Computers in Business, Networking, Internet E-mail, Resource Sharing, Gopher, World Wide Web, Usenet, Telnet, Bulletin Board Service, Wide Area Information Services. INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES: Modem, Internet Addressing, Physical Connections, Telephone Lines. INTERNET BROWSERS (Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator) INTRODUCTION TO HTML: Designing a Home Page, History of HTML, HTML Generations, HTML Documents, Anchor Tag, Hyper Links, HEAD AND BODY SECTIONS: Header Section, Title, Prologue, Links, Colorful Web Page, Comment Lines DESIGNING THE BODY SECTION:

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Heading Printing, Aligning the Headings, Horizontal Rule, Paragraph, Tab Setting, Images and Pictures, Embedding PNG format images. SECTION II ORDERED AND UNORDERED LISTS: Lists, Unordered Lists, Headings in a List, Ordered Lists, Nested Lists. TABLE HEADLING: Tables, Table creation in HTML, Width of the Table and cells, cells spanning multiple row/columns, coloring cells, column specification, DHTML AND STYLE SHEETS: Defining styles, Elements of styles, linking a style sheet to an HTML Documents, In-Line Styles, External style sheets, Internal style sheets, Multiple Styles.

SECTION III FRAMES: Frameset Definition, Frame Definition, Nested Framesets etc. A WEB PAGE DESIGN PROJECT: Frameset Definition, Animals, Birds, Fish. FORMS: Action Attributes, Method Attribute, Encrypt Attribute, Drop Down List, Sample Forms. BSIT(05)-204 DESKTOP PUBLISHING TOOLS INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER-SETTER The question paper will consist of Two parts, A and B. Part A will have 15 short answer questions (40-60 words) of 2 marks each. Part B will have 12 long answer questions of 5 marks each. The syllabus of the subject is divided into 3 sections I, II and III. The question paper will cover the entire syllabus uniformly. Part A will carry 5 questions from each section and Part B will carry 4 questions from each section. INSTRUCTION FOR CANDIDATES Candidates are required to attempt all questions from Part A and 9 questions of Part B out of 12. Section I CorelDraw Basics : Introduction; CorelDraw Terminology; Starting CorelDraw 10; CorelDraw Interface; Title Bar; Menu Bar; Tool Box; Drawing Window; Drawing Page; Property Bar; Flyouts; Standard Toolbar; Controlling the display of Toolbars; Working with Docker Windows; The Status Bar; CorelDraw View; Zooming and Planning. Basic Drawing : Introduction; Working with Lines; Drawing a Curve; Bezier Lines and Curves; Rectangles and Squares; Ellipses and Circles; Polygons and Stars; Selection

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Techniques; Using Rulers; Using Grids and Guidelines; Defining Grids; Snap to Grid; Defining Guidelines; Snap to Guidelines; Spirals and Graphs; Spirals; Graphs. The Artistic Media Tool : Introduction; Using Preset Tool; Using Brush Tool; Using Object Sprayer Tool; Using Calligraphic Tool; Pressure-Sensitive Lines or Curves; Applying Artistic Media Effects. Advanced Drawing : Introduction; Grouping and Ungrouping Objects; Working with Layers; Object Locking; Editing Curves with nodes; Editing Shapes and Nodes; Using Knife Tool; Using the Eraser Tool; Using Free Transform Tool. Working with Text : Creating Artistic Text in Paragraphs; When to use Artistic Text?; Working with Artistic Text; Creating Artistic Text; When to use Paragraph Text?; Creating Paragraph Text; Switching between Artistic and Paragraph Text; The Text Property Bar; Formatting Text; Format Text Dialog Box; Character Formatting; Paragraph Formatting; Setting Tabs; Setting Columns; Using Effects; Using Edit Text Feature; Using Find and Replace; Change Case; Using Spell-Check; Grammar Checking Text; Using Thesaurus. Advanced Text Work: Fitting Text to Path; Flowing Text around an Object; Flowing Text within an Object; Editing individual Characters; Kerning Individual Characters; Working with Text Styles; Linking Frames. The Outline Tool : Introduction; Using the Outline Pen Dialog Box; Setting Outline; Outline Styles; Outline Color; Outline Corners; Setting Outline Arrows; Applying Calligraphic Outlines; Setting Outline Options with the Property Bar; Behind Fill Option; Scale with Image Option; Outline Color Dialog Tool; Color Model; Color Harmonies; Color Blend; Setting Outline Defaults. The Fill Tool : Introduction; Using Uniform Fills; Using Fountain Fills; Using Texture Fills; Using PostScript Fills; Using Pattern Fills; Using Mesh Fills; Using Interactive Fills; Copying Fills; Setting Fill Defaults. The Interactive Tools : Introduction; Distorting Objects; Push and Pull Distortion; Zipper Distortion; Twister Distortion; Extruding Objects; Blending Objects; Interactive Envelopes; Free Transformations; Applying Interactive Shadow; Applying Interactive Transparency; Applying Interactive Contours. Section II Working with Images: Introduction; Image Formats; Importing Images; Using the Scrapbook; Bitmap Images; Cropping Bitmaps; Bitmap Special Effects; Color Masking; Resizing & Rotating/Skewing Images; Exporting Images. Page Layout : Introduction; Layout Styles; Define Page Size; Setting the Size; Inserting Pages; Specifying Background Color; Hiding the Page Border; Going to specific Pages. Printing and Publishing : Introduction; Selecting a Printer; Using Layout Styles when Printing; Tiling a Print Job; Using Print Style; Print to File. Introduction to Photoshop What is Photoshop?; New Features of Photoshop 2004 CS; Enhanced File Browser; Easily customize your keyboard shortcuts; Quickly create, view, and edit custom file information; Create slide shows and PDF presentations; Collaborate with Web photo galleries; Track your editing history; Easily access and use multiple filters; Use enhanced scripting; Customize the Help menu; How to Create Web Images; How to Customize and Automate; How to Fix and

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Enhance Photos; How to Paint and Draw; How to Prepare Art for Other Applications; How to Print Photos; How to work with Color; How to Work with Layers and Selections; How to Work with Type; Tools of Photoshop Using Tools; Marquees Tool; Lasso Tool; Cropping Tool; The Airbrush Tool; Clone Stamp Tool; Eraser Tools; Blur and Sharpen Tool; Path Component Selection Tool; Pen Tool; Notes Tool; Hand Tool; Move Tool; Magic Wand Tool; Slice Tool; Paintbrush Tool; History Brush Tool; Paint Bucket Tool; Dodge Tool; Type Tool; Rectangular Tool; Eyedropper Tool Zoom Tool; Healing Brush Tool; Paints and Colors in Photoshop Use of Paints; Color Tools; Color Picker; the Color Palette; the Swatches Palette; Adding New Color; Saving Foreground as a Swatch; Blending Modes; Normal; Dissolve; Multiply; Behind; Screen; Overlay; Hard light; Soft light; Darken; Color Dodge; Color Burn; Lighten; Exclusion; Difference; Hue; Saturation; Color; Luminosity; Smudges; Focus Tools; The Toning Tools; Dodge and Burn Tools; Sponge Tools; Different Media; Watercolor; Oil Painting; Pencil Filters; Chalk and Charcoal Filters; Working with Colors; RGB Model; CYMK Model; HSB Model; CIE Lab; Working Models; Bitmap and Grayscale Mode; Indexed Colors Section III Text, Layers and Masks in Photoshop Adding Text to Images; Layer Effect; Glows Effect; Bevel and Emboss; Using Layers and Masks; Layers; Creating a New Layer; Hiding and Showing of Layers; Working with Multiple Layers; Merging Layers; Layer Effects; Masks; Quick Mask; Adding Mask to the Layer; Editing Layer Masks; Removing Layer Mask Special Effects in Photoshop Applying a Radial Blur; Adding Noise Texture; Creating Halftone Pattern; Blending Modes; Applying Ripple Effect; Creating Lightening Effects Menu Commands of Photoshop Introduction; File Menu; Edit Menu; Image Menu; Layer Menu; Select Menu; Filter Menu; View Menu; Window Menu; Help Menu Keyboard Shortcuts of Photoshop Viewing; Selecting and Moving Objects; Painting; Editing; Path editing; Slicing and Optimizing

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